Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 42

“That is probably a wax-work show,” thought he; “and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visitor or two.”

Who acts: That, work show, people, late visitor · What happens: be, think, delay, take down, sign, hope · To what, where: work show, Fate, sign, hopes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, work show, people, late visitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 show	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 show	cop
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 show	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 show	det
6	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wax	punct
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	compound
9	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 delay	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 delay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 delay	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 delay	nsubj
19	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
20	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 delay	xcomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 taking	compound:prt
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sign	nmod:poss
23	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 hopes	case
25	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 taking	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 visitor	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 visitor	det
28	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 visitor	amod
29	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hopes	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 two	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 visitor	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 delay	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 delay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a work show		probably property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	a work show	Fate			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	delay in a quote	present	the people				vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	take down in a quote	gerund	the people not said here	people's sign	hopes of a late visitor		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme in hope=Destination
5	sign in a quote		people				nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	hope in a quote		a late visitor				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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